Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
News from CCRI researchers and their projects
Lab4Living’s Claire Craig was recently invited to facilitate a series of master classes in London for occupational therapists wanting to deliver and embed the Lifestyle Matters approach into mental health services. Lifestyle Matters is an intervention developed through research with older people in Sheffield. The original research was undertaken over ten years ago by Claire Craig and Gail Mountain and […]
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Lab4Living Claire Craig and Paul Chamberlain had the honour of being invited to visit a Maori Marae in Auckland, New Zealand. Here they were able to learn of rich history and the cultural traditions of the Maori community as well as hearing about some of the health and social care challenges facing individuals. One of their hosts, Kataraina Davis, is […]
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Claire Craig, Paul Chamberlain and Dan Wolstenholme, Lab4Living were recently invited to meet with a group whose formation was inspired by research in Sheffield. When researchers from the Design for Health and Wellbeing Lab in New Zealand visited Sheffield in September 2016 they had the opportunity to meet attendees of the Lifestyle Matters Group. Claire established this group 12 years ago in a research […]
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Echoes of Protest is a collaborative research project by SHU’s Esther Johnson and Debbie Ballin. The Journal of the Oral History Society has published the co-authored journal Echoes of Protest: untold stories of the 1984–1985 UK Miners’ Strike, by Esther and Debbie. It will feature in their Spring 2017 issue. For more than thirty years the Oral History Society has […]
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Nuclear Art and Archives Visual Research Center Dundee Contemporary Arts DD1 4DY 08 April 2017 1.30PM – 7PM A day of artists’ films and discussions about nuclear art and archives considering the kinds of knowledge and reflective spaces that contemporary art produces for rethinking the nuclear. As the civil industry starts to consolidate its archives at the new Nuclear Archive […]
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A collaborative project between John Kirkby of Design Futures, speech and language therapist Mark Jayes, and staff and patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation has been recognised by Mediplex NHS Innovation Awards 2017. The Mental Capacity Assessment Support Toolkit (MCAST) supports multidisciplinary staff to carry out robust mental capacity assessment and could better support vulnerable patients to communicate their needs. MCAST has been tested with […]
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Abstractions of Holderness is an audio-visual work by Esther Johnson and Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs inspired by Basil Kirchin’s 1970s residency in East Yorkshire. Kirchin, an English drummer and composer, is known as a pioneer of musique concrète and has been described by Brian Eno as, “a founding father of ambient”. Hull: City of Cinema is a […]
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In a month-long exhibition and inquiry, Arts Catalyst looks at artists’ practices that explore the nature of conflict in relation to the use of the Earth’s geological natural resources. 24 March 2017 – 22 April 2017 Arts Catalyst London WC1H 8DR Exhibition open Thursday – Saturday, 12PM – 6PM Preview: 6:30PM – 9PM on Thursday 23 March Advances in technology […]
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Joanne Lee, photographer, writer, researcher and publisher and Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at Sheffield Hallam University will be speaking at Make.Practice.Perfect. at The Collection, Lincoln on the topic of Procrastination: preparation, perfection and excuses. Find out more about Joanne’s work here. Make.Practice.Perfect. Annual Event Friday 24 March 2017 10AM – 5PM The Collection & Usher Gallery, Lincoln LN2 1LP How do […]
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Esther Johnson‘s Hinterland (2002), and new commission Retreating the Line (2017), have been selected for Somewhere Becoming Sea curated by Film and Video Umbrella as part of Hull 2017 UK City of Culture. 5 April 2017 – 17 June 2017 Somewhere Becoming Sea Humber Street Gallery, Hull HU1 1TU Somewhere Becoming Sea reflects how expanses of water that divide countries […]
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